Re: Bug#63124: apt-get isn't getting new Package lists
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Well the local /var/state/apt/lists/ keeps it uncompressed, I can't
> really show that the files are different if I quote one compressed and
> the other uncompressed now, can I?
gzip -d foo | wc -c
or md5sum is good too.
> Well whatever is on the mirror is what it _didn't_ download, hence the bug
> report! :-)
It has to! It cannot make this up! It goes to the network and pulls down
whatever is there. *IT CANNOT CREATE A PACKAGE FILE FROM THIN AIR* :>
It *has* to have come from the network, which means it is either the
remote site or a busted transparent proxy (ugh). The file name is directly
taken from the URL that was used to get the file, they are never renamed
or otherwise mangled. So if the filename says topic.com it came from
topic.com.
> Just to speculate, the ftp.au.debian.org site still has a 3-day-old
> mirror. It's listed as a deb-src. Perhaps apt-get refuses to get the
> new Packages in case src and binary get out of sync?
No.
Jason
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